Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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